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1	The Writer's Journey: Mythic Structure for Writers more books like this by Christopher Vogler This updated and revised third edition provides new insights and observations from Vogler's ongoing work on mythology's influence on stories, movies, and man himself. The previous two editons of this book have sold over 180,000 units, making this book a 'classic' for screenwriters, writers, and novelists see all copies from $3.99! new only from $15.52! \| SVS
2	Writing Fiction: A Guide to Narrative Craft more books like this by Janet Burroway The most widely used and respected text on writing fiction, the Sixth Edition of Writing Fiction guides the student writer from first inspiration to final revision. Written in a tone that is personal and non-prescriptive, the text encourages students to gain confidence with the writing process. Through discussion of key topics of fiction writing, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $40.00! \| first editions \| SVS
3	Steering the Craft: Exercises and Discussions on Story Writing for the Lone Navigator or the Mutinous Crew more books like this by Ursula K Le Guin A non-fiction work by renowned author Le Guin discussing the art of writing. see all copies from $3.75! new only from $8.64! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	The Situation and the Story: The Art of Personal Narrative more books like this by Vivian Gornick As Vivian Gornick puts it, "In every work of literature there's both a situation and a story. The situation is the context or circumstance, sometimes the plot; the story is the emotional experience that preoccupies the writer: the insight, the wisdom, the thing one has come to say." In addition to her own experience with the form, Gornick also ... see all copies from $5.93! new only from $8.08! \| first editions \| SVS
5	The Cambridge Introduction to Narrative more books like this by H Porter Abbott The Cambridge Introduction to Narrative is designed to help readers understand what narrative is, how it is constructed, how it acts upon us, how we act upon it, how it is transmitted, and how it changes when the medium or the cultural context change. Porter Abbott emphasises that narrative is found not just in the arts but everywhere in the ... see all copies from $2.67! new only from $6.00! \| SVS
6	Narrative Design: Working with Imagination, Craft, and Form more books like this by Madison Smartt Bell With clarity, verve, and the sure instincts of a good teacher, bestselling author Madison Smartt Bell illuminates the process of narrative design. In essays and analyses of twelve stories by established writers and students, Bell emphasizes the primary importance of form as the backdrop against which all other elements of a story much work. ... see all copies from $7.50! new only from $10.80! \| SVS
7	Telling Stories: An Anthology for Writers more books like this by Joyce Carol Oates Using the reading list for her writing seminar at Princeton University, Joyce Carol Oates presents over 90 works of narrative art. Here are classics and relative unknowns, short vignettes and long genre fiction, tragic tales and humorous character sketches. Oates chose pieces that will inspire beginning and experienced writers alike. In special ... see all copies from $4.20! new only from $20.40! \| first editions \| SVS
8	Make a Scene: Crafting a Powerful Story One Scene at a Time more books like this by Jordan E Rosenfeld Scenes are essential fictional units, and if a single unit falters, then an entire novel or short story can be weakened. While there is no paint-by-numbers formula for writing powerful scenes, writers can drastically improve their manuscripts by understanding the primary components of a given scene and how to manipulate those components to create ... see all copies from $5.99! new only from $7.36! \| first editions \| SVS
9	The nature of narrative more books like this by Professor Robert Scholes, Robert Kellogg For the past forty years The Nature of Narrative has been a seminal work for literary students, teachers, writers, and scholars. Countering the tendency to view the novel as the paradigm case of literary narrative, authors Robert Scholes and Robert Kellogg in the original edition offered a compelling history of the genre narrative from antiquity ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.93! \| SVS
10	A Dictionary of Narratology more books like this by Gerald Prince History, literature, religion, myth, film, psychology, theory, and daily conversation all rely heavily upon narrative. So it is hardly surprising that studies of the art of narrative abound. Narrative has a language much its own, with regularly recurring patterns, deeply established conventions for transmission, and interpretive codes, whether in ... see all copies from $3.99! new only from $16.50! \| first editions
11 view cover	The Genesis of Secrecy: On the Interpretation of Narrative more books like this by Sir Frank Kermode Frank Kermode has long held a distinctive place among modern critics. He brings to the study of literature a fine and fresh critical intelligence that is always richly suggestive, never modish. He offers here an inquiry--elegant in conception and style--into the art of interpretation. His subject quite simply is meanings; how they are revealed and ... see all copies from $8.94! new only from $22.71! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	Writing Fiction more books like this by Janet Burroway This comprehensive, informal, practical guide/anthology approaches the elements of fiction from the writer's point of view. Writing Fiction, 5/e, includes freewriting to revision, addressing how writers must work through problems in plot, style, characterization, dialogue, atmosphere, imagery, and point of view to write exciting and fresh stories. ... see all copies from $10.00! new only from $54.00!
13 view cover	Frame Work: Culture, Storytelling, and College Writing more books like this by Gary Colombo, Bonnie Lisle, Sandra Mano The first writing text to combine a process-oriented, revision-centered approach with the current thinking on the impact culture has on writing. Designed specifically for students who have struggled under traditional methods, it enlists the power of stories to enable beginning college writers to move successfully into the academic world. see all copies from $2.13! new only from $6.00!
14 view cover	Six Walks in the Fictional Woods more books like this by Umberto Eco In this exhilarating book, we accompany Umberto Eco as he explores the intricacies of fictional form and method. Using examples ranging from fairy tales and Flaubert, Poe and Mickey Spillane, Eco draws us in by means of a novelist's techniques, making us his collaborators in the creation of his text and in the investigation of some of fiction's ... see all copies from $2.86! new only from $8.50! \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	Narrative Fiction: Contemporary Poetics more books like this by Shlomith Rimmon-Kenan One of the most significant volumes in its field, Narrative Fiction examines key approaches to narrative fiction, including New Criticism, formalism, structuralism and phenomenology, also offering views on and modifications to these theories. This edition is up-dated with a new concluding chapter, referring to recent work in the field. see all copies from $3.00! new only from $17.78! \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	Narrative Medicine: Honoring the Stories of Illness more books like this by Rita Charon Narrative medicine has emerged in response to a commodified health care system that places corporate and bureaucratic concerns over the needs of the patient. Generated from a confluence of sources including humanities and medicine, primary care medicine, narratology, and the study of doctor-patient relationships, narrative medicine is medicine ... see all copies from $14.06! new only from $16.65!
17 view cover	Deconstructing History more books like this by Alun Munslow Deconstructive readings of history and sources have changed the entire discipline of history. And in this second edition of Deconstructing History, Alun Munslow examines history in what he argues is a postmodern age. He provides an introduction to the debates and issues of postmodernist history. He also surveys the latest research into the ... see all copies from $10.00! new only from $32.41! \| SVS
18 view cover	Time and Narrative, Volume 1 more books like this by Paul Rico, Paul Ricoeur, Paul Ricur "Time and Narrative" builds on Paul Ricoeur's earlier analysis, in "The Rule of Metaphor," of semantic innovation at the level of the sentence. Ricoeur here examines the creation of meaning at the textual level, with narrative rather than metaphor as the ruling concern. Ricoeur finds a "healthy circle" between time and narrative: time is ... see all copies from $11.00! new only from $14.27! \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	Time, Narrative, and History more books like this by David Carr see all copies from $8.43! new only from $22.74! \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	The Cambridge Companion to Narrative more books like this by David Herman (Editor) The Cambridge Companion to Narrative provides a unique and valuable overview of current approaches to narrative study. An international team of experts explores ideas of storytelling and methods of narrative analysis as they have emerged across diverse traditions of inquiry and in connection with a variety of media, from film and television, to ... see all copies from $26.59! new only from $26.59! \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	Time and Narrative, Volume 2 more books like this by Paul Rico, Paul Ricoeur, Paul Ricur In volume 1 of this three-volume work, Paul Ricoeur examined the relations between time and narrative in historical writing. Now, in volume 2, he examines these relations in fiction and theories of literature. Ricoeur treats the question of just how far the Aristotelian concept of "plot" in narrative fiction can be expanded and whether there is a ... see all copies from $10.32! new only from $13.61! \| SVS
22 view cover	The West: Volume 2: Encounters and Transformations more books like this by Brian Levack, Professor Edward Muir, Meredith Veldman The West: Encounters & Transformationstakes a new approach to telling the story of Western Civilization. Rather than looking at Western Civilization only as the history of Europe from ancient times to the present, this groundbreaking book examines the changing nature of the West--how the definition of the West has evolved and transformed ... see all copies from $21.52! new only from $44.00!
23 view cover	Conflict, Action, and Suspense more books like this by William Noble, Bill Noble see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.93! \| first editions
24 view cover	Recent Theories of Narrative more books like this by Wallace Martin This book ranges over the entitle spectrum of recent theories of narrative to show how they have altered our understanding not only of fiction but of nonfictional forms such as biography and historical writing. see all copies from $4.19! new only from $17.05! \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	Stealing Fire from the Gods: The Complete Guide to Story for Writers and Filmmakers more books like this by James Bonnet A revised and expanded sequel to Stealing Fire from the Gods, this 2nd edition includes important new revelations concerning the ultimate source of unity, the structures of the whole story passage, the anti-hero's journey, the high-concept great idea, the secrets of charismatic characters, and the analyses of many important new stories and ... see all copies from $15.52! new only from $15.52! \| SVS

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